The viking sagas mention three distinct places on the voyage west of Greenland: Helluland (probably Baffin Island), then Markland (probably Labrador), and then Vinland. Descriptions of the final ...

(Read the new National Geographic magazine feature "Vikings and Native Americans: Face-to-Face.") While digging in the ruins of a centuries-old building on Baffin Island (map), far above the ...

who lived on Baffin Island between 500BC and AD1500. The scientists believe that the Dorset, who dressed in animal skins, did not know how to spin yarn, unlike the Vikings. The three-metre strand ...

Roughly 1,000 years ago, the story goes, a Viking trader and adventurer named ... traversed the Davis Strait and turned south past Baffin Island to Newfoundland—and perhaps beyond.

researchers raise doubts about whether the so-called Medieval Warm Period was really so warm in southern Greenland or nearby Baffin Island — suggesting that the tale of the Vikings colonizing ...

Hints that Vikings settled in North America first ... of flat stones called they called Helluland (thought to be Baffin Island). From here, the route goes south past Markland, a stretch of beaches ...